英语词汇“short commons”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

short commons1

archaic Insufficient allocation of food: a life of short commons...

The threat of ‘short commons’ is the threat of an insufficiency.
This biscuit was to be kept strapped on the top of each man's knapsack, well tied, with brigade orders for no man to taste a morsel of it, unless given out in written orders to that effect, as our brigadier expected we should be on short commons while on the Pyrenees, and this was to be, in case of scarcity, our last resource.
If these gales continued for any length of time it often meant short commons for them and their families, unless they had had the foresight to lay in a good stock of cured fish.

See parent entry: commons

plural noun

See commons.

单词	short commons
释义	short commons1 archaic Insufficient allocation of food: a life of short commons... The threat of ‘short commons’ is the threat of an insufficiency. This biscuit was to be kept strapped on the top of each man's knapsack, well tied, with brigade orders for no man to taste a morsel of it, unless given out in written orders to that effect, as our brigadier expected we should be on short commons while on the Pyrenees, and this was to be, in case of scarcity, our last resource. If these gales continued for any length of time it often meant short commons for them and their families, unless they had had the foresight to lay in a good stock of cured fish. See parent entry: commons short commons2 plural noun See commons.
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